L30/14/299/1

Sent from Grafton Street:

24 Jan 1783

From: 1783 To: 1783

Payne's confinement from sickness prevents him offering his personal congratulations to Grantham on the subject of Grantham's letter to the Lord Mayor of London, which has appeared in all the public papers today. A general Peace would be greatly gratifying to Payne. The Corps Diplomatique must necessarily be augmented to its usual establishment, and Payne has dreamed that Lord Mountstewart will return no more to Turin and that he may be given the post. [In French] he adds that his wishes are in Grantham's hands. [In English] Asks Grantham to regard these few lines "as the humble Petition of a sick Man, who has been confin'd by Want of Health for the Space of three Months, and is now only solliciting Permission to change the Air".

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